On 7th of May, 2026, we had the PostgreSQL May Meetup in Berlin. AWS hosted it again, this time we had two speakers from UK and US.
The Meetup took place in the Amazontower (EDGE East Side Tower Berlin) in Berlin, across the Uber Arena and with a view at the railway station Warschauer Straße.
Celeste Horgan: pg_lake: Unifying transactional and analytical data with Postgres
Celeste is Sr. OSS Developer Advocate at Snowflake. In her talk she showed how to use pg_lake to connect PostgreSQL with data lakes and query Apache Iceberg catalogs.
- Slides: pg_lake: Unifying transactional and analytical data with Postgres (not yet available)
- pg_lake (GitHub)
Rob Treat: I Didn’t Know Postgres Could Do That!
Rob works for AWS, and in his talk he presents a list of things where he bets that you didn’t know PostgreSQL can do. Everything from transactional DDL, Windowing Functions, …
Pizza
Of course there was pizza! It arrived a bit late, during the second talk. So it was between Rob talking about windowing functions and everyone wanting pizza. Not a fair competition ;-)
Thank you
The Meetup was mainly organized by Daria Aleshkova (AWS) and Sergey Dudoladov (Zalando). Thank you!
Speaking at a future Berlin PostgreSQL Meetup
The PostgreSQL Meetup group in Berlin exists since 2015, and currently has around 2100 members.
The Meetup group is always looking for speakers, and venues to host a Meetup.
If you are interested in either speaking about a PostgreSQL-related topic, or if your company is interested in hosting a Meetup, please contact the organizers.
A Meetup is an opportunity to test a talk in front of a smaller audience, before presenting it at a conference. There is no time limit at the Meetup, there is enough time for questions, and the feedback is more direct.
If you are unsure if your topic fits, let’s discuss. Here to help. We are also accepting Lightning Talks.
Social Media profiles
The Berlin PostgreSQL Meetup is present on the following social media profiles:
- LinkedIn: PostgreSQL Meetup Berlin
- Mastodon: @postgresberlin@fosstodon.org
Please follow these accounts for more updates.
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